Winning Quotes - Page 114

Whatever I have to do to help us win, I'll do.

It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

Losses are always a relief. They take a burden off me, make me feel more normal. If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. If I lose I go back to the dressing room and I'm no better nor worse than anyone else. A loss gets me eager again.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Businesses that do this through voluntary exchanges not only benefit through increased profits, they bring better and more competitively priced goods and services to market. This creates a win-win situation customers and companies alike.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system.